Government Fails to Provide Facts, Justice, and Reparations to Victims

AUGUST 29, 2014

(London) – On the eve of the annual International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch urge Pakistan’s government to stop the deplorable practice of state agencies abducting hundreds of people throughout the country without providing information about their fate or whereabouts.

KARACHI: Three missing Baloch men, two of them said to be related, were found shot dead on the outskirts of Malir on Friday morning, police said.

Two bodies were found behind the bushes by the roadside near Jam Goth, according to Memon Goth SHO Azam Hayat. Both bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the head, were wrapped up in a blanket and a bedspread.

It is Punjabi collaborators and not Punjabi settlers that are targeted. Those who are working as informants for the Military Intelligence or the ISI in the guise of workers are being killed. In a war of liberation, collaborators cannot be spared. However, no Punjabi settler has been hit,’ says Dr Allah Nazar Baloch. A central figure of ongoing Baloch resistance and Baloch nationalism, Dr Allah Nazar Baloch emerged as prominent student leader from the platform of Baloch Students Organisation (BSO). He was picked y intelligence agencies, tortured during the illegal custody and remained ‘missing’ for a couple of years. His courageous struggle earned him an iconic status in Balochistan. He is presently commanding Baloch National Front.

BALOCHISTAN: Senior journalist and Secretary General of Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) Irshad Mastoi, trainee reporter Abdul Rasul and an accountant of a news agency were gunned down in Quetta’s Kabir Building on Thursday.

According to SHO Bijli Road police station, two armed men barged into the office of the news distribution agency Online News and opened fire at the people inside. “Senior journalist Irshad Mastoi, trainee reporter Abdul Rasul and accountant Mohammed Younus were shot in the head and chest. All died on the spot,” said SHO Hashim Shah.